Below you will find everything that happened in Professional Wrestling history on April 12th.
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• On This Day In Pro Wrestling History (April 12, 1984) – WWF House Show
On this day in Pro Wrestling history on April 12, 1984, the World Wrestling Federation held an untelevised house show at the Mark Sheehan High School in Wallingford, Connecticut.
This live event included matches featuring the 1984 WWF Superstars.
The results can be found below:
Women’s Tag Team Champions Princess Victoria & Velvet McIntyre defeated Peggy Lee & Wendi Richter
WWF Tag Team Champion Tony Atlas defeated Rene Goulet
David Schultz defeated Salvatore Bellomo
Roddy Piper defeated Jose Luis Rivera
Sgt. Slaughter defeated Greg Valentine by DQ
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• On This Day In Pro Wrestling History (April 12, 1980) – WWF Philadelphia House Show
On this day in Pro Wrestling history on April 12, 1980, the World Wrestling Federation held a televised house show at the Philadelphia Spectrum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The show was televised on the PRISM Network and featured Dick Graham & Kal Rudman on commentary.
The results can be found below:
Baron Mikel Scicluna defeated Tony Altimore
Larry Sharpe defeated Jose Estrada
Tor Kamata defeated Johnny Rodz
Ken Patera pinned Rene Gouelt
Hulk Hogan defeated WWF World Champion Bob Backlund by count-out
Bruno Sammartino defeated Larry Zbyszko
Dominic DeNucci defeated Davey O’Hannon
The Wild Samoans defeated WWF Tag Team Champions Tito Santana & Ivan Putski
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• On This Day In Pro Wrestling History (April 12, 2016) – Old School ECW Veteran Passed Away
On this day in 2016, we lost Old School ECW Veteran Balls Mahoney (Real name: Jonathan Rechner) at the age of 44 due to a heart attack.
The first time we saw him on TV was when he did televised jobs for the World Wrestling Federation in 1992 and later joined Jim Cornette’s Smoky Mountain Wrestling in 1994.
Before Balls Mahoney made a name for himself in Paul Heyman’s Extreme Championship Wrestling, he portrayed The Million Dollar Man’s evil Santa Claus called “Xanta Klaus” on WWF TV for a short period of time.
In ECW he won 3 Tag Team Championships, 2 with Spike Dudley and 1 with Masato Tanaka.
REST IN PEACE BALLS MAHONEY!
April 11, 1972 – April 12, 2016
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